For some years now the CIRN Prato conference has focused on the intersection between Community Informatics (CI), Development Informatics (DI), and Community Archiving (CA).

In particular, the 2015 conference focused on information and knowledge as socially constructed artifacts and the ways in which relations of information and knowledge production can reflect unequal distributions of power and privilege, “whether manifested in gendered activity; the primacy given to formalized expertise or particular language codes; restricted access to information, knowledge and production for those not in positions of institutional control; or the production of particular artifacts”. The 2015 conference also questioned the role of the academy in defining terminology and appropriate technologies of memory, viewing this as a form of epistemological colonization on vulnerable groups. The conference sought ways of engaging more meaningfully with practitioners.

In 2016 the intention was to continue to explore and to expand on such issues, bringing a stronger focus on more meaningful and equal partnerships with community, civil society, and NGO organisations around the world.

Refereeing Statement

The Conference Proceedings contains referred, non-refereed and PhD colloquium papers from the conference and has been prepared for your convenience. Only documents provided by authors have been published.

Papers and presentations are published, ‘as is', in a pdf format, after refereeing or other advice. Powerpoints or posters that have been made available have been published as PDFs.

Some papers are not published upon the request of the author, are published elsewhere (we will provide information in the future) or they were not received for final publication.

All full papers in the refereed category were subject to blind peer review by at least two reviewers, and reviewers' comments returned to the authors. Authors were then required to make changes and if necessary, a further review conducted by the peer review co-chairs before final approval.

This is a publication (E1) for a conference publication for Australian participants.